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Recent Examples of self-recrimination
The story moves between the present, where Agathe and Vera go through the detritus of their childhood lives, and the past, as Agathe conjures memories from her childhood, bringing incidents to mind for inspection and some measure of self-recrimination.
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John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
His expression in those scenes, so full of fury and self-recrimination, turn Milchick into Severance’s most compelling mystery.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.
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Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
His expression in those scenes, so full of fury and self-recrimination, turn Milchick into Severance’s most compelling mystery.
—
Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.
—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-recrimination
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On the one hand, self-reproach is a convenient stance for showrunner Ryan Condal to take.
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Laughing, by contrast, conveyed that the person understood the mistake was trivial and didn’t require dramatic self-reproach.
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This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern.
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Encourage employees to replace self-blame with intentional affirmations.
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Within days, the Florida Supreme Court issued its own guidelines, rendering the separate affirmation redundant.
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Sitting around a table in the soundstage where the pilot for I Love Lucy was filmed, the six of them tailored the roles to the actors and infused the script with arguments, embarrassments, and confessions from their own relationships.
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What happens when the material is not confession but trace?
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The lesson is visibility without self-betrayal.
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But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.
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Historian Pauline Maier has identified some 90 declarations sent to the Continental Congress by towns and counties throughout the colonies.
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At first glance, these expressions might seem triumphalist declarations that link the nation’s success over the past 250 years with Christian faith.
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The Star tried a standard latte with honey ($6) and later upon the insistence of a nearby customer, the Beetdown (beets, mandarin, fresh mint, lemon peels, espresso and milk; $8).
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Mary The Widow, directed by Ryan Noufer, follows an aging widow who, at her daughter’s insistence, attends a speed-dating event — where, among a string of dud dates, one gentle stranger lingers in her mind.
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Reports indicate the wedding celebration will take place on July 3 at Madison Square Garden, but the lack of confirmation means at least some of the attempts to keep things under lock and key have been successful.
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The findings were promising, but the study was small, and subsequent research has not yet provided strong confirmation.
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“Self-recrimination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-recrimination. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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